Job Description As Strategy Health Category Excellence Director, you are the architect of the business unit's future.
This role is not just about planning, it is about making strategy real: anticipating health category trends, driving timely strategic discussions with senior leaders inside and outside the BU, and being a key driver of change in how Gnosis competes and wins.
You will: • Shape Gnosis' 3–10-year strategic vision, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and goals and industries or market opportunities.
• Bridge strategy and execution with cross-functional leaders (R D, marketing, regulatory, operations and more), turning plans into measurable results.
• Define and implement a world-class health category excellence framework that improves customer experience and BU performance.
You join the extended leadership team and work closely with the Global Head of Strategy Innovation.
1. BU Strategic Leadership and Execution Driver (~70%) Vision Roadmap: • Develop and refine the short-term and long-term strategic plans, take the BU strategy through into the Lesaffre Group strategy ensuring they align with the company's mission, values, and growth ambitions.
• In close collaboration with Corporate and BU Strategic Competitive Intelligence, Lesaffre Knowledge Center and Economic Intelligence, and Gnosis Product and Solutions teams and SOAs (Strategic Opportunity Areas) leaders, run deep-dive market, competitive, and industry analyses to ensure continuous differentiation as well as identify emerging opportunities, risks, and white spaces.
• Turn insights into actionable strategies, including BU portfolio optimization, and partner with M A and BD team to fuel growth.
Decision-Making Frameworks: • Design models, tools, and KPIs to evaluate business decisions (e.g.,



prioritization matrices, scenario planning, ROI), monitor strategy performance (e.g., market share, revenue growth, innovation success rates) and recommend course corrections.
• Develop mitigation strategies for external risks such as major regulatory changes, competitive threats.
Strategy in Motion – Execution • Oversee the transformation initiatives assigned by the Leadership Team, delivered on time, within budget and with measurable impact, and allocate resources and budgets to strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. innovation, product and solutions, market insights, operational marketing, regulatory, scientific and medical affairs, operations, R D) to ensure seamless execution of initiatives at global level and appropriate allocation of resources and budgets effectively to support strategic priorities.
• Design the strategy office to monitor health category performance and drive data-based continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Engagement: • Communicate the vision to BU and Group executive teams, securing buy-in and alignment, and advise the Global Head of Strategy Innovation on critical decisions.
• Represent Gnosis in external forums (conferences, partnerships, investor meetings) to showcase thought leadership in health category excellence at BU strategic levels.




Expected Deliverables Aligned decks for the Quarterly Business Reviews and the bi-annual Leadership Team strategy review: progress against KPIs (revenues, gross margin, customer NPS, innovation success, competitive positions) and risk mitigation plans.
100% of strategic initiatives tracked, with clear owners and timelines, and, with the communication teams, a health strategy report at least annually.
2. Health Category Excellence (20%) - Build a uniform framework for the health categories: category plans, innovation cycles, market and segment development, B2B2C pricing approach, performance metrics, claims and risks assessment tools and processes.
- Keep the BU ahead of competition: work with product solutions, Innovation SOA and strategic business intelligence to identify and address gaps in the BU portfolio.
Recommend opportunity areas that meet customer needs and optimize performance at industry/market and Health Category overarching levels using sales data, customer feedback and market intelligence.
- Be the subject matter expert and main contact for health category excellence, supporting cross-functional teams.
Key deliverables: In the first 3 to 6 months, a macro market analysis, from nutrition through nutraceuticals to pharma, with segmentation, competition, customer typologies and regions.
An updated BU roadmap (18-months and 3/5-years) with prioritization criteria, gap analysis and proposals for new investments or divestments.
A Health Category Excellence Playbook with templates for category planning, pricing, claims and performance metrics 3- Culture and Operating Model (10%) Be a constructive collaborative culture ambassador inside and outside the BU.
Foster a B2B2C approach by supporting cross-functional processes, governance and the operat

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